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Educating God's Lost Flock in 'The Lamb' by William Blake

In four pages this paper discusses how William Blake educates others on the gifts from God humans possess in his poem 'The Lamb.'...

William Wordsworth's Poetry and the Themes of Grieving and Death

the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...

Analyzing the 1863 Poem 'My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....

Poem Analysis: Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy

This 4 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem Convergence of the Twain, which describes the Titanic sinking....

The Flea vs. To a Coy Mistress

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...

Analysis Cinderella

In one page this much loved children's story is analyzed in terms of its retelling that is based on the film by Walt Disney as it ...

Retelling the Story of 'Bambi'

the spring, Bambi is surprised by his own reflection in the water. He has become a buck with antlers?like his father. The conflict...

'Cherrylog Road' by James Dickey

In five pages an explication of this poem is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Infamous Fight Between Frederick Douglass and Mr. Covey in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper examines the fight as presented in Douglass's Narrative to conclude that it was merely a retelling of an ...

'Answering the Unanswerable' by Nancy Willard Analyzed

It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...

Sylvia Parker's 'Motherlove' Analyzed

in her eyes./ Maybe/ I will never be able to forget that and become someone different and better to my child. Connotation One ...

Comparative Analysis of 'Lamia' by John Keats and 'Triumph of Life' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...

Christina Rossetti's 'In An Artist's Studio'

the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...

An Analysis of I Started Early Took My Dog

present us with the sheer power of the sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic ...

The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell

in Southwestern "cowboy" garb. There are two brothers dressed in chaps, sporting bandanas, and wearing cowboy hats, but the third ...

The Journey in Apocalypse and Heart of Darkness

bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...

Similarities Between Two Works By Ferlinghetti and Frost

thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...

Neal Stephenson's Retelling the Story of the Industrial Revolution in The Diamond Age

Industrial Revolution as the result of Sir Richard Arkwrights creative combination of power and machinery, the nanotechnology surg...

Song of Myself

Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...

Analysis of 4 poems by Robert Frost

imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

Martin Espada: Heart of Hunger and Imagine the Angels of Bread

could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...

Wordsworth’s Nutting

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

The Second Coming by Yeats

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

Richard Cory

people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...

Comparing the Real Story of Pocahontas to the Disney Cartoon Interpretation

was not until 1624 and the publication of Smiths The Generall Historie of Virginia...&c., that Smith told the story that "as man...

Two Poems, Childhood Memories of Father

This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...